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Spence, David S.; Joyner, L. Felix – 1981
Funding and enrollment issues facing higher education are considered in two articles. In "Funding for Higher Education Enrollment Shifts in the 80s," David S. Spence outlines the decline in number of traditional college-age students; the trend to older, part-time, place-bound students; the increasing demands for remedial, continuing, and…
Descriptors: College Administration, College Students, Declining Enrollment, Educational Finance
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Washington, DC. – 1980
This summary provides an overview of developments in school finance litigation since the United States Supreme Court's historic and lamentable 1973 ruling in "San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez" that wealth-based discrimination in educational expenditures does not violate the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Discriminatory Legislation
Peat, Marwick, Mitchell and Co., Houston, TX. – 1973
This study examines the current Texas school finance plan, the finance plans and proposals of other states, national school finance research, and the results of a survey of Texas leaders and educators before presenting alternative revenue and distribution plans, their effects and costs, and possible revenue sources. The study was conducted under…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education, Equalization Aid
Cox, Millicent – 1976
California is under court order (Serrano v. Priest) to revise the system of financing public elementary and secondary education. Initial analysis had predicted that a shift to statewide taxation would result in greater educational resources at a lower tax cost for lower income families and fewer resources at a higher tax cost for wealthier…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Court Litigation, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Guthrie, James W.; And Others – 1970
This paper reports on a recent study in Michigan to assess the part played by State school finance arrangements relative to social class structure. Study results supported the premise that present systems for financing public schools tend to reinforce social class distinctions. An alternative financial plan that would help equalize educational…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Ancillary School Services, Assessed Valuation, Bibliographies
Lee, Beatrice C., Ed. – 1973
This report consists of tables that rank States according to 129 separate data items that provide information for understanding, explaining, interpreting, and evaluating various aspects of State school systems. Although the latest available figures are used, some are estimates, and others are based on sampling studies. National totals are shown in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Average Daily Attendance, Average Daily Membership, Census Figures
Illinois State Board of Education, Springfield. – 1997
This publication provides information on the sources and amounts of funds available for prekindergarten through postsecondary education in Illinois common schools for 1996-97. The guidebook contains a summary of fiscal-year 1997 appropriations to the Illinois State Board of Education, as well as appropriations for educationally related purposes…
Descriptors: Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Federal Aid, Fiscal Capacity
Augenblick, John; Sharp, Jennifer – 2003
The purpose of this paper is to explore funding issues related to charter districts. It begins with definitions of charter school and charter district. It continues with a brief discussion of public-school finance and some of the policy issues associated with distributing state funds to school districts, allowing school districts to generate…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Equity (Finance), Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Tollefson, Terrence A.; Garrett, Rick L.; Ingram, William G. – 1999
In 1990 a study was conducted whose purpose was to establish empirically the degree to which governance of each state community college system was centralized or decentralized. This data would provide information on which to base decisions for changing governance structures. The 1990 study was replicated in 1997. A 100% response rate was obtained…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Centralization, College Transfer Students, Community Colleges

Chew, Kenneth S. Y. – Sociology of Education, 1992
Presents results of a study exploring how demographic trends are affecting political support for public education. Explains that the study expected and found that parents would support increases in public school taxes more than nonparents. Suggests that political ideology was a stronger indicator of support for public education than was…
Descriptors: Demography, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education, Financial Support
Prince George's Community Coll., Largo, MD. Office of Institutional Research and Analysis. – 1995
Pursuant to Maryland Higher Education Commission guidelines, this comprehensive financial plan for fiscal year (FY) 1994-98 for Prince George's Community College (PGCC) provides data on fiscal trends, strategic goals, and cost containment measures planned by the college. Following introductory materials and information on PGCC's mission, five sets…
Descriptors: Accountability, Budgeting, Budgets, Community Colleges
Prince George's Community Coll., Largo, MD. Board of Trustees. – 1995
Each year, the Board of Trustees of Prince George's Community College (PGCC) in Largo, Maryland, must submit a report evaluating the effectiveness of PGCC's financial plan to the state's Higher Education Committee and General Assembly. This document provides the report for fiscal year (FY) 1994 divided into four sections. The first section reviews…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, College Planning, Community Colleges
Prince George's Community Coll., Largo, MD. Board of Trustees. – 1996
Each year, the Board of Trustees of Prince George's Community College (PGCC), in Maryland, must submit a report evaluating the effectiveness of PGCC's financial plan to the state's Higher Education Committee and General Assembly. This document provides the report for fiscal year (FY) 1996 divided into four sections. The first section reviews the…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, College Planning, Community Colleges
Prince George's Community Coll., Largo, MD. Board of Trustees. – 1993
Each year, the Board of Trustees of Prince George's Community College (PGCC) in Largo, Maryland, must submit a report evaluating the effectiveness of PGCC's financial plan to the state's Higher Education Committee and General Assembly. This report, for fiscal year (FY) 1993, is divided into four sections. The first section reviews the cost…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, College Planning, Community Colleges
Geske, Terry G. – 1983
Prospects for Illinois public school revenues and school district reorganization in the 1980's, considered in the context of prospects for the Great Lakes region as a whole, are affected by fundamental demographic and economic changes. The region has had a lower population growth rate since 1970 than the rest of the country, and a slower growth in…
Descriptors: Consolidated Schools, Declining Enrollment, Economic Climate, Educational Finance